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UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 4, 20248 min read

UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Ideogram 1.0 huge improvements in text rendering + image quality | You don’t need a university degree to do UX | Self-taught UX designers

Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 29, 20247 min read

Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX

Traditional accessibility methods have been tried for 30 years without improving usability for disabled users. Generative UI may be better.

Multi-Craft Specialized Content in the AI Era

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 22, 20248 min read

Multi-Craft Specialized Content in the AI Era

AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

Individualizing UX: Ever Narrower User Targeting

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 8, 20247 min read

Individualizing UX: Ever Narrower User Targeting

User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization.

UX Roundup: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 5, 20249 min read

UX Roundup: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song

AI is a general-purpose technology that can double economic growth | Comparing human card sorting with AI categorization

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 1, 20248 min read

What AI Can and Cannot Do for UX

AI can already perform many UX tasks. It will do more in the future, including maybe UI design. But AI will not replace watching users.

UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 29, 20245 min read

UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job

AI-First Products | Dark Design | Perplexity AI

UX Roundup: Domain-Optimized AI | Be a Test User | Heuristic Evaluation Template | Jakob Live

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 22, 20244 min read

UX Roundup: Domain-Optimized AI | Be a Test User | Heuristic Evaluation Template | Jakob Live

Optimizing AI answers for a specific domain and perspective | Participate in user-research studies yourself | Heuristic evaluation template.

AI Habit Formation: Future-Proofing Your UX Career

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 19, 20243 min read

AI Habit Formation: Future-Proofing Your UX Career

Integrate AI into your UX workflow through effective habit formation: establish cues that trigger regular AI use to build your expertise.

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 12, 202411 min read

The 3 Ages of Authorship and Creation

Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.

UX Roundup: Titan of Human Factors | Long UX Career | AI Articulation Barrier | Design Challenge | Leonardo Text | UX Podcast

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 8, 20246 min read

Jakob Nielsen named “Titan of Human Factors” | Retrospective on a long UX career | The articulation barrier to using AI is similar to DOS

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 4, 202412 min read

Curating AI-Generated Images

In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix

UX Roundup: Top UX Articles of 2023 | AI Sings | AI as Provocateur | Integrate AI in Apps | Package Delivery UX | Reporting UX Research | Midjourney Can Spell | UX-AI Job: Ideogram

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 26, 202310 min read

Jakob’s top-10 articles and top-3 videos in 2023 | AI sings about the 10 usability heuristics | The future of work: changing AI metaphor

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 20, 20237 min read

Rebirth of the UX Unicorn?

Summary: UX professionals who are good at all steps of the UX lifecycle, including both research and design, are called “UX unicorns”...

UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 18, 202310 min read

UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 15, 20234 min read

Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult

Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.

Artificial Empathy: Is It Still Empathy?

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 13, 202316 min read

Artificial Empathy: Is It Still Empathy?

Is AI an unfeeling machine, or can it exhibit empathy? Do users feel empathy when interacting with AI? A debate.

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 11, 20238 min read

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.

Big Productivity Gains in Office Use of AI

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 8, 20238 min read

Big Productivity Gains in Office Use of AI

Microsoft Copilot increases the productivity of office tasks by around 40%, with even higher gains seen for search tasks.

UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 4, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste

Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”

4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

UX Angst of 2023-24

Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience

Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

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